Women's Right and Morals

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day her husband took her into the town and announced her shameful deed towards his family. It was an anonymous agreement for punishment to take place, her brother-in-law held her down as her husband cut off her ears and her nose and left her alone in the desert (Ghafour). Even Aisha’s own blood relatives wanted nothing to do with her because of her actions. After U.S. forces took action and took her under their care, she was taken to Kabul to be kept safe. Although other cultures should be respected because it is their own way of doing things, human rights and what is morally right should always be respected as well and used in any culture.
Women in many cultures are being abused and harmed because in their culture and in their religion, it is what is right for them. What many Muslims follow in their daily obligations is called the Sharia, meaning path in Arabic. This derived from the Quran and the Sunna, the practice of Prophet Mohammad. Within the Sharia, marriage and ...

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provided for the al-Qaeda, it was widely hoped that the women of the country would be liberated from a regime that denied them education and jobs, forced them indoors and violently punished for infractions of strict interpretation of Islamic law” ( 2 ).

Examples of certain punishments that these women endured were those of harsh circumstance. If a woman was accused of adultery, she would be stoned to death and according to Koofi, an Afghan woman, women were not even allowed to laugh aloud (Baker 2). This article mainly focuses on the possibility and the fear of women that the Taliban may return.
In reference to the Afghanistan’s constitution, rights such as the promotion of gender ...

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